Audio summary and analysis of the 50 books

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Audio Summary and Analysis of the 50 Life Changing Books

Winning wisdom for work and life from 50 landmark books

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50 Success Audio-Book on Biographies (a summary and analysis of the 50 books and the key ideas - summary reading of all 50 books) plus introduction to the success literature with list and thematic guide to the landmark works.

50 commentaries on 50 classic works: the story of each book's writing, their life-changing ideas, their impact, some representative quotes, the meaning of each book 'in a nutshell', and cross-referencing to similar classics.

Includes 'quick tour of the literature', 'characteristics of successful people' and chronological list of titles.
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Introduction

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Summary

1. Horatio Alger Ragged Dick (1867)
2. Warren Bennis On Becoming A Leader (1989)
3. How I Raised Myself From Failure To Success in Selling (1947) by Frank Bettger
4. The One Minute Manager (1981) by Kenneth Blanchard & Spencer Johnson
5. The Americanization of Edward Bok (1921) by Edward Bok
6. The Magic of Believing (1948) by Claude M Bristol
7. Andrew Carnegie Autobiography (1920)
8. Thick Face Black Heart (1992) by Chin-ning Chu
9. The Richest Man in Babylon (1926) by George S Clason
10. Secrets of the Ages (1926) by Robert Collier
11. Good To Great (2001) by Jim Collins
12. Acres of Diamonds (1921) by Russel H Conwell
13. The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People (1989) Stephen R Covey
14. Direct From Dell (1999) by Michael Dell
15. My Life and Work (1922) by Henry Ford
16. The Way To Wealth (1758) by Benjamin Franklin
17. The Inner Game of Tennis (1974) by Timothy Gallwey
18. The Eleanor Roosevelt Way Robin Gerber Leadership  (2003)
19. How To Be Rich (1961) by John Paul Getty
20. How to Have Power and Confidence In Dealing With People (1956) by Les Giblin
21. The Art of Worldly Wisdom (1647) by Baltasar Gracian
22. How To Succeed in Business Without Being White (1997) by Earl G Graves
23. Think and Grow Rich (1937) by Napoleon Hill
24. Success With a Positive Mental Attitude (1960) by Napoleon Hill & W Clement Stone
25. The Official Guide to Success (1982) by Tom Hopkins
26. Born To Win (1971) by Muriel James & Dorothy Jongeward
27. Who Moved My Cheese? (1998) by Spencer Johnson
28. Rich Dad, Poor Dad (1997 ) by Robert Kiyosaki
29. The Wealth and Poverty of Nations (1998) by David Landes
30. The Power of Full Engagement (2003) by Jim Loehr & Tony Schwartz
31. The Making of an American Capitalist (1995) by Roger Lowenstein Buffett
32. Long Walk To Freedom (1994 ) by Nelson Mandela
33. Pushing To The Front (1894) by Orison Swett Marden
34. The Spirit To Serve (1997) by JW Marriott Jnr
35. Capparell Shackleton's Way (2001) by Margot Morrell & Stephanie
36. Lincoln On Leadership (1992) by Donald T Phillips
37. The Dynamic Laws of Prosperity (1962) by Catherine Ponder
38. Take Time For Your Life (1998) by Cheryl Richardson
39. Unlimited Power (1986) by Anthony Robbins
40. The Magic of Thinking Big (1959 ) by David Schwartz
41. Secret Door to Success (1940) by Florence Scovell Shinn
42. The Millionaire Mind (2000) by Thomas J Stanley
43. Maximum Achievement (1993) by Brian Tracy
44. The Art of War (4 th century BCE) by Sun Tzu
45. Made in America (1992) by Sam Walton
46. The Science of Getting Rich (1910) by Wallace Wattles
47. Straight From the Gut (2001) by Jack Welch Jack
48. Coaching For Performance (1992) by John Whitmore
49. The Luck Factor (2003) by Richard Wiseman
50. See You At The Top (1975) by  Zig Ziglar

About the Author Tom Butler-Bowdon

Tom Butler-Bowdon is now recognised as an expert in personal development literature. His 50 Classics series has been hailed as the definitive guide to "the literature of possibility," and has won numerous awards including the Benjamin Franklin Self-Help Award and Foreword Magazine's Book of the Year Award. A graduate of the London School of Economics and the University of Sydney, he lives and works in both the UK and Australia. Winning wisdom for work and life from 50 landmark books

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Horatio Alger Ragged Dick (1867)

Despite being rattling good yarns that really can inspire, the common view of Horatio Alger's books is that they are quaint historical pieces with a simplistic message about striving and getting ahead. Yet success can be simple if you have the basic elements of personal character and aspiration, with some luck thrown in.

As Rychard Fink has noted, when Ragged Dick was written Herbert Spencer's writings on "the survival of the fittest" had some influence in America. Yet Alger's idea of success included a strong element of social responsibility or stewardship. You might make money, but ultimately it should be put back into society, as Andrew Carnegie did by funding public libraries. With his willingness to give to those in need, Alger makes Dick an example of compassionate capitalism.

Many of the villains in his books are rich boys who never had to make any effort to improve their character. Alger's main point is that we should strive for success not just to get a fortune, but to gain tenac-ity, discipline, frugality, and optimism qualities that cannot be bought.

Horatio Alger
Born in 1832 in Revere, Massachusetts, at 14 Alger was sent to board-ing school by his father, a strict Unitarian minister, followed by entry to Harvard University at 16. He enjoyed his time there, coming tenth in his class of 62 and becoming proficient in Greek, Latin, French, and Italian.

Forbidden to marry his college sweetheart, the heartbroken Alger defied his father by stating his intention to become a writer. He agreed to go to divinity school, but just before graduation escaped to Paris with some friends and enjoyed its liberal atmosphere. Back in America he was ordained and became a church minister in Massachusetts, but
left for New York at the suggestion of William T. Adams, editor of Student and Schoolmate. The weekly installments of Ragged Dick in this children's monthly were wildly popular, and a hardback version
became a bestseller. Alger was the toast of New York and sat on various boards and committees for improving the lot of street children. He lived for a number of years at the Newsboys Lodging House, and died in 1899.

Alger's other books (over 100) include Strive and Succeed, Struggling Upward, Bound to Rise, and From Canal Boy to President, about the
life of assassinated President James Garfield.

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Warren Bennis On Becoming A Leader (1989)

Bennis has probably done as much as anyone to shatter the myth of leaders as heroes, born not made. Above all, leadership is a choice and

involves leading ourselves first.

We live in a democracy of leadership, in which everyone can lead in some way. As more people understand what leadership means and are

taught to achieve their potential, it might be expected that competition will increase to ridiculous levels. However, competition is the result of

everyone striving to win at the same thing, whereas personal visions are unique. To become a leader is to claim the power and assurance that come from being a one-off.

This commentary is based on the original edition of On Becoming a Leader. There is a new, updated and expanded edition that you may prefer to acquire.

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Frank Bettger : How I Raised Myself From Failure To Success in Selling (1947)

To succeed as a salesperson, you require a level of self-discipline, deter-mination, and courage that will serve you well in any other field.

Though not the most respected of professions, sales has been the path out of mediocrity for many who had a truncated education. In Bettger's case, the psychological hurdles he had to overcome freed him from a sense of limitation.

Before you disregard this book, thinking "I am not a salesperson and have no interest in sales," perhaps you should widen your defini-tion of selling. We all have to persuade others to buy into our ideas or agree to our suggestions, and you can do this with much greater effec-tiveness if you are willing to study a few easy techniques. Bettger's work is a great place to start.

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Kenneth Blanchard & Spencer Johnson The One Minute Manager (1981)

After decades of weighty tomes on management science and organiza-tional behavior, The One Minute Manager came as a breath of fresh air
for managers. It may seem simplistic, but it was firmly based on the lat-est findings in behavioral psychology. Blanchard and Johnson's genius
was to dress up this knowledge in the more attractive form of a story.

With today's flatter organizational structures and emphasis on work-ing in teams, it could be argued that the book is less relevant. It seems
to express an older, hierarchical and sexist model of the workplace, "the boss and his subordinates." What is more, today we enjoy making the distinction between mere managers and leaders—while the latter inspires, the former simply manages.

Yet true leaders, as the examples above suggest, will find it difficult to get anywhere without some basic people management skills. They will seek to create relaxed workplaces in which people have all the time they need to pursue important goals. This sense of relaxed purpose arises because everyone knows exactly what their role is; there exist both transparency and clarity of purpose.
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Edward Bok The Americanization of Edward Bok (1921)

A Dutch immigrant with little education who came to influence a gen-eration through the most prosaic of vehicles, a women's magazine, Bok's is a classic story of migrant success. The closest modern compari-son for his achievements would be Oprah Winfrey, who at a time when daytime television was going further downmarket decided to promote
books and reading. Like Bok, Winfrey did not give people what they wanted, but instead something a little higher. Such people do not just sell products, they are respected and loved.

Bok's early retirement (he was only 56) surprised everybody, but he was determined not to go to the grave working. He felt that this was the
fate of too many American men, and he admitted that he remained "European" in putting quality of life first. While he considered that the greatest thing about his adopted country was its idealism, its failing was favoring quantity over quality. While one part of him always kept an eye on success through numbers, knowledge and art were what inspired him.

Bok's grandmother had given him the simple advice to "make the world a better and more beautiful place because you have been in it."

With his emphasis on increasing the American people's store of know-ledge and culture, Edward Bok certainly met his grandmother's mea-sure of success.

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Claude M Bristol The Magic of Believing (1948)

"Gradually I discovered that there is a golden thread that runs through all the teachings and makes them work for those who sincerely accept and apply them, and that thread can be named in a single word—
belief. It is this same element or factor, belief, which causes people to be cured by mental healing, enables others to climb the ladder of success, and gets phenomenal results for all those who accept it."
"Undoubtedly, we become what we envisage

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Andrew Carnegie Autobiography (1920)

"No kind action is ever lost. Even to this day I occasionally meet men. who I had forgotten, who recall some trifling attention I have been able
to pay them, especially when in charge at Washington of government railways and telegraphs during the Civil War, when I could pass people
within the lines—a father helped to reach a wounded or sick son at the front, or enabled to bring home his remains, or some similar service. I am indebted to these trifles for some of the happiest attentions and the most pleasing incidents of my life."
"My advice to young men would be not only to concentrate their whole time and attention on the one business in life in which they engage, but to put every dollar of their capital into it... As for myself
my decision was taken early. I would concentrate upon the manufacture of iron and steel and be master in that."

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Chin-ning Chu Thick Face Black Heart (1992)

"One of the results of reading this book will be the shattering of your traditional concepts of ruthlessness. Thick Face, Black Heart is not
about ruthlessness. You will learn that by adapting and adopting a form of non-destructive ruthlessness, you will gain the freedom necessary to
achieve effective execution of your life's tasks."
"The first superficial exposure to Thick Face, Black Heart is often shocking and repellent because it can serve the criminal as easily as the saint."

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George S Clason The Richest Man in Babylon (1926)

The book's "cures for a lean purse" include not gambling and own-ing your own home (because it reduces the cost of living and increases
your enjoyment of life). Most importantly, it teaches you why you must become someone who draws dividends from investments instead of merely earning money from labor—letting money be your slave rather than vice versa. Even if you are older, it is not too late to make the transition. If you seek your betterment you will be rewarded.

The Richest Man in Babylon belongs to that group of titles within the success literature dealing with saving, investing, and financial pro-priety, in which setting goals, a strong work ethic, and an optimistic
attitude are all important. But how do you reconcile these ideas with those of the more spiritual prosperity authors such as Catherine Ponder
and Wallace Wattles? Both financial knowledge and a strong awareness of abundance are necessary if you are to accrue wealth in a satisfying, sustainable way. Everyone knows that the greedy and miserly, even those who have great wealth, are not happy. 

Equally, while "trusting in God as the source of your supply" may bring you unexpected gains, it
pays to increase your knowledge of the earthly world's financial ways and laws. With both faith and knowledge you can create fortunes that will last, and the wisdom you have attained on the journey can be used to help others.

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Robert Collier Secrets of the Ages (1926)

"You are one of the Lords of the Earth, with unlimited potentialities.
Within you is a power which, properly grasped and directed, can lift you out of the rut of mediocrity and place you among the Elect of the Earth—the lawgivers, the writers, the engineers, the great industrialists— the DOERS and the THINKERS. It rests with you only to learn to use this power which is yours—this Mind which can do all things."

"You need not be a slave to hard luck or circumstances all your life. There is a way to get the things you want—a way completely in harmony with the highest aspirations of the human race."

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Jim Collins Good To Great (2001)

"No matter how dramatic the end result, the good-to-great transformations never happened in one fell swoop. There was no single defining action, no grand program, no one killer innovation, no solitary
lucky break, no miracle moment. Rather, the process resembled relentlessly pushing a giant heavy flywheel in one direction, turn upon turn, building momentum until a point of breakthrough, and beyond."

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Russel H Conwell Acres of Diamonds (1921)

"Al Hafed heard all about diamonds that night, and went to bed a poor man. He wanted a whole mine of diamonds. Early next day, he eagerly besought the priest and asked him where diamonds could be found."

"Greatness consists in doing great deeds with little means—in the accomplishment of vast purposes. It consists in the private ranks of life—in helping one's fellows, benefiting one's neighborhood, in blessing one's own city and state."

Whatever you desire is probably close at hand, if you are willing to open your eyes and your mind

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